Improvement in horse-collars



' W H. BROWNSON.

' Horse-Collar.

No. 206,535. Patented July 30,1878,

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

WILLIAM H. BROWNSON, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,535, dated July 30,1878; application filed December 22, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BROWN- SON, of St. Paul, in the State ofMinnesota, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inHorse-Collars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and. operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a front view of myimproved collar. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is aview of the combined guard-housing and billet, and Figs. 4 and 5 aredetails.

This invention has for its object the improvement of horse-collars.

The nature of the invention consists in the combination of a bent rimand pad, formed of two overlapped strips of leather, the latter beingbent around to form a pad-case, and stitched to the welt, and the formerextended outward beyond the pad, to form a housing, and stitchedthereto.

It also consists in the combination, with a horse-collar open at thewithers, and provided with buckles at each side of the opening, of adouble billet, a neck-guard, and the housing secured thereto, as will behereinafter more fully shown and described.

In' the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a collar for horsesand mules, and consisting of a fore-Wale, a, and an after-Wale,body-side, or pad, 1), between which is a crease, c, for the receptionof the hames.

The fore-Wale a is made of wood of any suitable description, and, beingof proper dimensions and shape,is first steamed and then bent into theproper shape.

The after-Wale or pad bis made of two pieces of leather, d d, which,being overlapped, as shown in Fig. 2, are rigidly secured, along with awelt-strip, c, to the wooden rim to aforesaid, preferably by means of asuitable number of barbed staples, f. I may, however, use brad-headednails if I so elect. The free edge of the piece 01 is then turned under,and securely stitched to the welt-strip e aforesaid, thus forming aleather tube which, being stuffed, constitutes the pad or cushion. Thecushion thus formed is then secured, by stitching, as shown at '5, tothe part d, which is sufficiently wide to form an overlapping guard, g,for the protection of the collar from wet weather. The rim ais thusproperly attached to the pad, and efi'ectually holds the collar, ofwhich it is a part, in shape.

At each side of the opening, at the withers of the collar, a suitablebuckle, h, is rigidly secured, for the reception of the double billet D.This billet is riveted, or otherwise rigidly secured, at its middleportion to a housing composed of two pieces of leather, placed the oneupon the other, and secured to gether only at one point. The lowerleather, f, of this housing is passed under the ends of the collar andthe upper leather, 1, outside of the same, and the ends of the billetpassed into the buckles k. If the collar should be too short, by lettingout the billet one or more holes, as the case may be, this defect may bespeedily and effectually rectified.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the bent rim a, the pad 1), formed of twooverlapped strips of leather, d d, the latter being bent around to forma pad-case, and stitched to the welt e, and the former extended outwardbeyond the pad to form a housing, g, and stitched thereto, substantiallyas specified.

2. The combi ation, with a horse-collar open at the and provided withbuckles at each side of said opening, of the double billet and theneck-guard f, and housing Z secured thereto, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. BROWNSON. Witnesses:

RALPH BROWNSON, JOHN F. SNYDER.

